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Before the fourth one-day international, Mitchell Johnson decided to shave off his moustache.
During the fourth one-day international, Mitchell returned the less than impressive figures of 0-72 off 10 overs.
At the end of the fourth one-day international, England had finally notched a win against Australia.
The logical conclusion to draw from all of this is that Mitchell Johnson is not a regular reader of this blog.

These comments both had a similar theme to the effect that, whilst Log Errors and Save Exceptions are similar, there are some differences beyond their relative performance.

So, the aim of this post is to take a fresh look at these two mechanisms and how they compare.
For the code examples, I’m going to step away from the horror show that has been England’s cricket tour of Australia, and focus instead on the wacky world of Reality TV.

We’ve had celebrity high-diving, celebrity ballroom dancing, even celebrity dog-training.
With the Winter Olympics almost upon us, some particularly sadistic TV executive hit on the idea of assembling a collection of celebrities, strapping a plank of wood to each foot/handing them a tea-tray…and then pushing them off the side of a mountain.
All a bit of harmless fun. After all, what could possibly go wrong ?
Having said that, the producers of The Jump did hire a couple of extra cast members to account for the remote possibility that a broken rib/collar-bone/finger-nail might render one or more of the original contestants incapacitated. Continue reading →

After their comprehensive defeat at Lord’s back in June, some experts were confidently predicting that Australia would be on the wrong-end of a clean sweep in both of the back-to-back Ashes series.
Mitchell Johnson, if he was mentioned at all, was written off by all and sundry. After all, not only did he not hand homework in on time, he couldn’t be relied upon to hit a barn door, let alone a set of stumps.
Fast-forward a few months and you can see that conventional wisdom has held…to the extent that no barn doors have been dented.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of English pride.
Mitch and his mates have a bit of time on their hands before Australia visit South Africa next month – that nice Mr Lehman has let the class off homework – so they’re free to assist in contradicting another of those things that “everyone knows” – SQL is always faster than PL/SQL.

What we’re going to cover here (among other things) is :

a quick overview of the LOG ERRORS mechanism (Mitch doesn’t do any other speed)

a recap of the older PL/SQL SAVE EXCEPTIONS

performance comparison between the two with errors present

Explore the limits of LIMIT

performance comparison when no errors are present

Mitch is standing at the top of his run. A random English batsmen is quaking at the crease, so let’s get started… Continue reading →